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It's been a long time since I updated. Here's a quick run down:
-Spent most of March and April doing some political organizing out of Portage for the constituancy and on behalf of Hugh McFayden in the leadership(which he won!)
-came back to school for summer session just as a GPA boost as I get ready to apply to law schools in the fall.
Nothing really exciting to report outside of that
Now I'm sitting here at the U of M waiting for my next class to start and checking some of my favorite political blogs for any new banter. Hacks and Wonks is always my first stop, as it was through the entire leadership campaign, but in recent months I've been checking into a newcomer to the political blogroles, the blackberry addicts.
Now I enjoy some of their stuff, left leaning as it is, but I just checking in for the first time in a week and saw this:
http://blackberryaddicts.blogspot.com/2006/05/huey-hes-been-there-alright.html
If you're too lazy to open it, I'll just cut to what has me scratching my head:
"Meanwhile, the Dippers will hit Portage la Prairie hard in the next provincial election (they're already laying the groundwork there), pointing to the shiny new Simplot plant that rose up under their leadership."
Huh? Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? You mean to tell me that Portage la Prairie is a targeted constituancy?
This coming after Portage la Prairie was hit with the loss of the Women's jail in a move that has many inside the city limits seeing red. I have never seen an issue that has hit the town harder than the loss of the correctional facility. BBA, as I understand it, is run by people who claim to be insiders in the Provincial government, or at least were at a time, so this would have to be considered legitimate information.
But I wonder, how could they possibly believe that Portage la Prairie is an attainable constituancy? The example they give for why Portagers will vote for the NDP is Simplot. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but Simplot was opened in June 2003, the exact time of the last provincial election when...
a)The Provincial Progressive Conservatives slipped so far back in the polls that the press was predicting a landslide
b)Gary Doer stood at the opening of the local NDP campaign office and pledged that if Portage elected a NDP MLA the Women's Jail would be it's reward
and c)organizational help was bought and paid for from Sask in the form of Union labourers and manned the campaign machine for the entire election against a handful of retired teachers, a well liked MLA, and his family.
The election was close, but Portage la Prairie, as it has been since the 70s, remained Progressive Conservative. And the voters that kept David Faurschou in Power? The rural sections of the Portage la Prairie constituancy; the very people that were going to profit from the "shiny new Simplot plant". They didn't think much of the NDP then, why should they think any better of them now. Portage la Prairie is not going NDP. Not if I have anything to say about it.
End Rant.
-Spent most of March and April doing some political organizing out of Portage for the constituancy and on behalf of Hugh McFayden in the leadership(which he won!)
-came back to school for summer session just as a GPA boost as I get ready to apply to law schools in the fall.
Nothing really exciting to report outside of that
Now I'm sitting here at the U of M waiting for my next class to start and checking some of my favorite political blogs for any new banter. Hacks and Wonks is always my first stop, as it was through the entire leadership campaign, but in recent months I've been checking into a newcomer to the political blogroles, the blackberry addicts.
Now I enjoy some of their stuff, left leaning as it is, but I just checking in for the first time in a week and saw this:
http://blackberryaddicts.blogspot.com/2006/05/huey-hes-been-there-alright.html
If you're too lazy to open it, I'll just cut to what has me scratching my head:
"Meanwhile, the Dippers will hit Portage la Prairie hard in the next provincial election (they're already laying the groundwork there), pointing to the shiny new Simplot plant that rose up under their leadership."
Huh? Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder? You mean to tell me that Portage la Prairie is a targeted constituancy?
This coming after Portage la Prairie was hit with the loss of the Women's jail in a move that has many inside the city limits seeing red. I have never seen an issue that has hit the town harder than the loss of the correctional facility. BBA, as I understand it, is run by people who claim to be insiders in the Provincial government, or at least were at a time, so this would have to be considered legitimate information.
But I wonder, how could they possibly believe that Portage la Prairie is an attainable constituancy? The example they give for why Portagers will vote for the NDP is Simplot. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but Simplot was opened in June 2003, the exact time of the last provincial election when...
a)The Provincial Progressive Conservatives slipped so far back in the polls that the press was predicting a landslide
b)Gary Doer stood at the opening of the local NDP campaign office and pledged that if Portage elected a NDP MLA the Women's Jail would be it's reward
and c)organizational help was bought and paid for from Sask in the form of Union labourers and manned the campaign machine for the entire election against a handful of retired teachers, a well liked MLA, and his family.
The election was close, but Portage la Prairie, as it has been since the 70s, remained Progressive Conservative. And the voters that kept David Faurschou in Power? The rural sections of the Portage la Prairie constituancy; the very people that were going to profit from the "shiny new Simplot plant". They didn't think much of the NDP then, why should they think any better of them now. Portage la Prairie is not going NDP. Not if I have anything to say about it.
End Rant.